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MEDICINE

May 14 - Edward Jenner administers the first Smallpox Vaccination

AWARDS

BIRTHS

February 10 - Henry De La Beche , geologist (died 1855 )

February 22 - Adolphe Quetelet , mathematician and astronomer (died 1874 )

June 1 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot , mathematician (died 1832 )

August 21 - James Lick , philanthropist who endowed the Lick Observatory (died 1876 )

DEATHS

December 11 - Johann Daniel Titius , German Astronomer (born 1729 )

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